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MEMSCAP Breeding Ground for Robocup Champion

MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, announced today it is the breeding ground for the future champion of the Robocup soccer competition. Usin...

From MEMSCAP 9 Jul 2007

Buckyball Discovery Team To Be Reunited at nanoTX’07

Discovery of the buckyball at Rice University in 1985 that led to a Nobel Prize for three of the five team members, and ushered in the modern era of nanotechnology, will be recalled by surviving team members October 2 in...

9 Jul 2007

Industrial Nanotech Coating To Be Used On Petrobas Pipeline

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that the Company has recently developed an innovation application process for its 250 kilometer pipeline project with Petrobras, the...

9 Jul 2007

Lighter and Stronger Nanotechnology Enabled Surfboard Hits The Waves in Hawaii

The worlds first nanotechnology enhanced surfboard has been put through its paces in Hawaii. The board from Oceanit looks and feels like a standard surfboard and is made using traditional methods with a foam core, polyme...

9 Jul 2007

Nanorobots In Action At The 2007 RoboCup

A video has been released showing a microrobot from the Nanogram demonstration competition playing nano sized soccer. The RoboCup Nanogram competition challenges teams to develop and construct microscopic robots t...

9 Jul 2007

Electron Wave Means Electrons on the Surface of Some Metals Behave Like Water at the Surface of a Lake

New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-op...

9 Jul 2007

Russian Plans For Knowledge and Technology Based Economy

A video report has been released looking at how Russia is to pour over $1 billion into nanotechnology research and development. The aim of the Russian parliament is to develop a knowledge and technology-based economy ...

9 Jul 2007

Nanoparticle Risk Report Released By Swiss

The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) have published the Basis Report to the Swiss Actionplan "Risk Assessment and -management of engineered nanoparticles"...

9 Jul 2007

Inductively Coupled Plasma and Plasma Enhanced Vapor Deposition Tools Ordered By Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems

Surface Technology Systems plc (STS) announced that they have sold two plasma processing systems to Harvard University, one of the prestigious "Ivy League" institutions in Northeastern USA. The inductively coup...

9 Jul 2007